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by veidr 3y ago
That is one of my favorite books! I stumbled across it years ago and read it without even reading the summary on the book jacket — I highly recommend the book, and also going into it knowing as little about the story as possible.
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by veidr 3y ago
The shift from X11 to Wayland was a natural disaster that the fragile Linux ecosystem couldn't afford, and failed to deal with. It's set desktop Linux back more years than anything else I know of, although hard science-y numbers o
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by veidr 3y ago
OK, so... remote work isn't suitable for companies/startups with incompetent managers? But then... what kind of work really is
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by veidr 3y ago
Welcome to fucking software. I updated Mac OS X one time (or maybe it was just iTunes) and it deleted my home directory (remember that one)? I didn't open the mail promptly and missed the recall notice that my car's antilock brake
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by veidr 3y ago
UPDATE: There is now a very good simple explantaion of the bug, and how it became much more likely to happen recently, even though it has existed for a very long time: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15
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by veidr 3y ago
(>_<) Oh man, I knew about [0] when I posted (which is why I said it just reduces the chance of hitting the bug (by a lot)). But after spending all Saturday JST on it, I went to bed before [1] was posted. Skimming through #6958 though
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah, I am running a similar script I got from the GitHub bug thread; so far I have not found any suspected-corrupt files at all, except for in the files generated by the reproducer.sh script, e.g.: Possible corruption in /mnt&#x
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by veidr 3y ago
NOTE: This situation is worse than it seemed when this thread landed on HN; see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38405731
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by veidr 3y ago
It's a very bad bug, so it is important to note there's an apparently-effective mitigation[1], which doesn't make it impossible to hit, but reduces the risk of it in the real world by a lot. # as root, or equivalent:
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by veidr 3y ago
uhm, wat?
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by veidr 3y ago
E.g. by convincing 35% of this website's users to "subscribe" to its "service"? ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
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by veidr 3y ago
Uh, why not? You don't have to use the trial version font in every application. (I almost bought it after trialing it for a few days, but ended up going with MonoLisa.)
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by veidr 3y ago
Same here. And I put in my calendar to make it obvious to others that it's there. I used to put in in the issue-tracker, too, but lately our team manager started reducing the "normal" expected story points to a level that ref
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by veidr 3y ago
Seriously, it's not possible to come up with a worse name other than the obvious Windows You Love Eating Turds etc... How did this happen??!
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by veidr 3y ago
of course? I mean isn't that obviously going to happen?
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by veidr 3y ago
Well they could work any way the author wanted, but if it were me, I'd make the plugins WASM. That's how my favorite code formatter (dprint) does it. For that matter though, it's how I would implement just about any plugin, t
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by veidr 3y ago
> Cause or convenient excuse > to raise prices? It's most commonly both.
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by veidr 3y ago
> lots of good reasons to use rolling readout sensors Like what? Just curious, but the only reason I know of is that they're cheaper, or you already have them.
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by veidr 3y ago
> a Zojirushi cup isn't the same as an imperial cup Right, but a US cup isn't the same as a Japanese cup, or a UK cup, or even a US "legal cup" etc.. unfortunately the "cup" isn't a useful unit of measu
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by veidr 3y ago
Luckily, once environmental factors and hardware variance are controlled for, it turns out making good rice really is a sentence-autocomplete complexity problem! :-D
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by veidr 3y ago
Only if you cook rice like, every day, or multiple times per week.
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by veidr 3y ago
That thing looks awesome! But also... isn't at least one of the — if not the absolute primary and overwhelming — points of the "rice cooker" device that it not only cooks great rice, but also that it keeps the rice hot, but s
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah; I was assuming main is the production branch. I basically do not think "auto merge into prod" is ever OK, but then again, I let GitHub Copilot write 40-60% of my doc comments, so...
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by veidr 3y ago
(also nuking from orbit)
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by veidr 3y ago
> Or they've done the review, wait for CI to pass then hit merge? yes (in my experience)
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by veidr 3y ago
me either, so now anecdata of 2; but also, sounds insane of all the things a human should be in the loop for, merging to main seems like one of them
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, even Sun was wedded to the (shit-the-bed) CDDL, but before Oracle there was the sense that a one-off deal might be made. Once Oracle bought Sun, it was like "Which is more important, your filesystem or your OS?" Which isn&#x
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by veidr 3y ago
For sure; I mean, mine (a fairly modern, drum washer/dryer thing) cost like $2000 and the extremely basic functionality suggests the chip/SoC should be $20 or less. But, I assume any company doing that in any kind of serious volum
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by veidr 3y ago
I think almost all Apple apps do this, e.g. Photos.app. Which is super-annoying, even though I agree with in in theory . But generally the only reason I am writing an image to .jpg is to email it to somebody or upload it to some web app an
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't, either; that Oracle submarine pervert is the worst-remaining tech villain. Nevertheless, Apple built something objectively worse (T_T)

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